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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Conway

Native Place

Listowel, Kerry

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Robert & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Empl. not yet reported but to Camden. Im. Cor. 50/201 involved in accident on way to Yass with Mary/Margaret Brandon; 52/12 'wheel ran over her legs' (Strutt Journal pp.73-4); married Benjamin J Castle in St Mary's, Sydney, 1851; 7 children; she died 1876; husband died 1892.

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